The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 92
‘But know that in OUR house, it will be the cock who sings and not the hen!’
Who acts: house, cock · What happens: know, be, sing · To what, where: cock, OUR house, hen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, cock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 know | cc |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 cock | mark |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | OUR | OUR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 house | compound |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cock | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cock | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 cock | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cock | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cock | det |
| 13 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | ccomp |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 sings | nsubj |
| 15 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cock | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hen | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 hen | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hen | det |
| 19 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sings | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | future | house | the cock | OUR house | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present | the cock | the hen | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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